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A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
In effect, the foreman judged Weil’s status not just as a worker, but also as a human being.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.